The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act has deep roots in the civil rights movement; however, the legislation, as currently applied, has done little to address racial inequities in services students with disabilities receive. Too often, schools, districts, and states focus on complying with the regulations, while failing to make necessary…

The Supreme Court ruled in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973) that there is no constitutional right to education, but that has not stopped families and education activists from arguing that this right is implicit in the Fourteenth Amendment. Nicholas Tampio contends that, based upon the history of federal involvement in…

Mexican Americans have a long history in the struggle to end school segregation and achieve educational equality. Rubén Donato and Jarrod Hanson trace that history through a series of court cases that show how their fight for desegregation both intersects with and differs from the more well-known struggle of Black Americans. In some cases, Mexican…

Many school practitioners think of poverty as a kind of "culture," characterized by dysfunctional behaviors that can only be corrected by imposing harsh discipline on students. Further, beliefs about poverty are often used to justify racial disparities in disciplinary referrals, achievement, and enrollment in gifted, AP, and honors…

As in other educational realms, the courts are asserting more and more authority over interscholastic athletics. A summary of pertinent cases and decisions. (Editors)

Discusses written and unwritten tests of teachers and such issues as due process, equal protection, and test validity. (IRT)

This brief urges the Supreme Court to reverse the judgment of the California Supreme Court. (IRT)

This brief urges the Supreme Court to affirm the California Supreme Court decision. (IRT)

The good news in the Bakke case would be for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide that equal protection was denied and for the regents of the University of California to have to write a new, broader operational definition of equal protection for applicants to medical school. (Author/IRT)

Although in U.S. v. State of South Carolina the Court has established important guidelines legitimating the use of validated National Teacher Examination scores in the certification of teachers, some problems and questions remain. (Author/IRT)

Indicates the Supreme Court's attitude toward the comparison of the racial composition of the faculty with that of the student body, the time Title VII came into force, and the use of applicant flow data in cases of hiring discrimination, but not what constitutes a relevant labor pool. (Author/IRT)

Examining the history of a "promotion by achievement" program begun in 1973-74 in Greensville County, Virginia, the authors argue that the effects of the program were not racially discriminatory as alleged by a 1980 suit that led to the program's termination in 1981. (JBM)

In Runyon v. McCrary, the Supreme Court held that, in most cases, private schools cannot deny persons admission on the basis of race. (IRT)

The result, for those seeking a metropolitanwide solution to school desegregation, is that neither Milliken nor the implementation of Gautreaux offers very much hope for the near future. (Author)

Discusses the recent Supreme Court decision on desegregation of Denver schools. Suggests that by broadening the concept of de jure segregation, the Supreme Court has dealt a crippling, if not fatal, blow to defacto segregation. (Author/JF)